Vietnam faces a dual challenge in physician workforce development: an insufficient supply of doctors relative to population ...

Ensuring equitable access to life-saving medicines (LSMs) is crucial for achieving health equity. LSMs can prevent deaths ...

Background Tobacco control has been a critical strategy to reduce non-communicable disease (NCD) burden. However, the ...

Effective service delivery is a cornerstone of public health efforts, ensuring that essential healthcare reaches even the ...

Objectives Despite the East Asia and Pacific region (EAPR) accounting for 22.7% of global diabetes deaths amid rapid ...

Background Arab countries have seen an increased commitment towards improving access to family planning (FP) in recent ...

Since October 7 2023, attacks on healthcare facilities, healthcare providers, and universities alongside restricted aid entry by the Israeli military has significantly obstructed the ability to ...

High-burden cholera outbreaks, spreading beyond the traditional cholera-endemic countries, have been reported since 2021 in the WHO African region. Member states in the region have committed to the ...

Acute respiratory tract infections (ARIs) are a leading cause of ill-health and death globally. Individual or multiple micronutrients have been shown to modulate immune function and affect the risk ...

Studies conclude that frameworks and tools defining governance have been developed independently, seldom building on strengths and weaknesses as well as practical applications of previous instruments.

Cuba is an authoritarian state and is poor even by the standards of Latin America. Yet it has managed to achieve levels of life expectancy and infant mortality that (even after adjusting for possible ...

Globally, PM 2.5 was associated with 3 284 358 incident cases of CKD each year. The burden of CKD attributable to PM 2.5 was disproportionately borne by low income and lower middle income countries ...